Going to be honest here. I highly doubt this will actually happen.
But if it does then he has my vote 99%.

If only we had more good guys in the industry... it might be possible. But, you're probably right. Trump will have to drain that swamp before change
can be brought about.

I'm sure there's more than a few high profile convictions up his sleeve with the Big Pharma name on em. The Pharma Bros have had their own playground
for so long, they got sloppy, because theyre human and that's what humans do when they feel confident.

After some heads roll, and the American people's relentless cheers for MORE! MORE JUSTICE!! are all that anyone can hear from sea to shining sea, MORE
JUSTICE is what will be given.

Trump takes on surprise medical bills by standing there are telling legislators to write laws.

Just like how, when his administration caused a political ruckus for assisting in a lawsuit against government's own Affordable Care Act, pushing for
the entire law to be declared unconstitutional, and then tells the American people that the Republican party will now be the party of health care,
much to the Republican party's surprise and dismay!

The funny thing about this is, the legislators didn't bother to do any of this on their own. They've spent their time issuing subpoenas, asking how
on Earth DJT could have gotten so wealthy BEFORE being in office.

If Congress would write and pass laws Trump wouldn't have to tell them.

There ought to be a law! LOL
Trump made all kinds of promises about great and affordable health care while attacking the, albeit imperfect, Affordable Care Act that the Democrats
worked together to pass.

Trump owns the looming health care crisis. Standing up and claiming the Republicans are the party of health care back fired on him, because the
Republicans, who have plenty of complaints, had no plan to fix health care.

Trump claims he has a plan, the best plan for health care, who knew how complicated health care is? Trump says he's figured it all out, now, and only
he could do it, of course, but he won't tell us about his great, fabulous plan until after he's reelected.

Trump has an idea! What if I, the President of the United States, declare that Congress will write a law, that he abrained up, forcing doctors and
hospitals to prelist their prices, listing every swab and bandage. Even if he succeeds and Congress is able to pass such a law, it still doesn't put
control in the patients' wallets.

Trump is real good at knocking stuff down, breaking things. Not so good at fixing things and working within the governing and legislative system and
with existing laws, that have already been written.

Trump, Trump, Trump... really pathetic.

The Affordable Care Act was supposed to fix all of this. The fact that ACA is a failure has nothing to do with Trump. You can't give a cogent response
because the ACA is horrible and gave the healthcare system to the same insurance companies the left demonized.

My one son has special medical needs. Healthcare billing is insane. Much of it involves trying to game the insurance companies. They charge $2000
for a procedure, because they know the insurance will only pay a certain fraction of that (let's say 25% for example's sake) and they end up getting
$500 for it. The consumers are basically collateral damage, getting caught paying deductibles and coinsurance on wildly-inflated costs that the
healthcare company knows they won't actually collect.

That fact that Trump is even willing to try to clear this up is awesome. If the Democrats could pull their heads out of Vladimir Putin's ass for
maybe 5 minutes, perhaps one of them could have thought of this first.

Going to be honest here. I highly doubt this will actually happen.
But if it does then he has my vote 99%.

Yeah, I remember that 'Healthcare for all Americans' talk on the campaign trail that Trump did to try to sway the other side to him. He didn't follow
through on that whatsoever, so why would anyone believe him now. Especially now that we've just seen lie after lie from that dude.

“We’re going to have insurance for everybody,”

"There was a philosophy in some circles that if you can’t pay for it, you don’t get it. That’s not going to happen with us.”

Remember those promises? Just blabbing. Remember how he would never talk specifically about how he was going to do that?

Just keep them placated with vague promises. It's what con men do.

Oh, you mean he sounded just like Obama who you likely voted for???

We know Trump hasn't dropped the ball on anything...He tries to get these things thru the Republican in name only Senate and House and that's where it
stops...

Soon enough the libs/the left will make an argument that "Putin is making Trump do this" or some such asinine and illogical argument will pop up and
inundate all social media. Libtards will eat it up as if it was true, and will begin anew their calls for impeachment amid fake claims on how POTUS
Trump "is a puppet of Putin..."

Even if that is true, Trump is the one doing it. Dems never did, even though as you point out, the plan was already in place and working in other
countries. Even though it was as easy as copying an existing plan from someone else dems still refused to do it or couldn't figure out how. I don't
know which is worse.

YAY TRUMP! Another promise kept.

It is obvious some of you don't know which is worse.

So either dems were too stupid to follow an existing plan, or, they didn't care about the American people enough to bother. Either way, that is just
plain pathetic. And it is hard to tell which is worse. If the dems are really that stupid, and I know there is abundant evidence supporting that, then
what does that say about the even more stupid people who keep voting for them? On the other hand, if the dems care so little about this country and
its people, what does that say about the idiots who keep voting for them? Either way its pretty bad. If you think one of those is worse than the
other, more power to you. I think they both suck.

I know...promises kept... Its been so long since I saw a politician do that. But hey, its happening now and you know you are benefiting from it too so
stop acting like a child and be happy we have a POTUS who isn't a complete failure like the last one.

Why don't you call it what it is? Criminal legislation that was forced on us by the dems when obama shut down the government for 16 days because he
was having a royal hissy fit his signature piece of sh1t tax wasn't going through...

I am thankfully not a citizen of his presidency. Merely an outside observer. His lies and promises are bleedingly obvious.
In response to the actual Op, i do not take from the source, nor have i found any others, that suggest any detail or substance to Trump or his
administration having put forward any plan or actions that will benefit consumers or enforce greater medical billing transparency.

Trump announced a new push Thursday for legislation designed to end surprise medical bills.

The announcement comes as the White House prods the health-care industry for greater transparency and lower prices.

Trump also said Thursday that he would support states that allow residents to import drugs from other countries as part of his continuing campaign to
lower costs.

Listen, you gullible clown: are you aware that Republicans, under orders from Trump, recently contacted pharmaceutical companied and told them NOT to
cooperate with a Congressional investigation into prescription medication costs, which is damn near unprecedented? Or do you only read news that
agrees with your biased opinions?

This is a classic and transparent PR/pull the wool over the eyes stunt: publicly do something of much smaller relative significance, such as surprise
medical bills, to claim you are fighting medical costs and cover for the fact that you are actively impeding an investigation into something much more
significant and costly (in this case, prescription costs). It couldnt be more blatantly BS. Except people like you are gullible and thoughtleas enough
to actually fall for it.

Trump takes on surprise medical bills by standing there are telling legislators to write laws.

Just like how, when his administration caused a political ruckus for assisting in a lawsuit against government's own Affordable Care Act, pushing for
the entire law to be declared unconstitutional, and then tells the American people that the Republican party will now be the party of health care,
much to the Republican party's surprise and dismay!

Trump campaigned on "repeal and replace" the ACA. He had no replacement plan.

Trump urged Congress to repeal the ACA, even though they didn't have a replacement plan.

Trump orders his Justice Department to aid states in their lawsuits against the ACA and encourages the courts to declare the entire act
unconstitutional, without any plan to replace it.

Trump declares the Republican is the party of health care, and will come up with the best health plan in the whole entire world, that will cover
people with preconditions, the poor, the middle class, everyone, better and cheaper than the ACA in the next congressional session.

Congressional Republicans tells Trump to pound sand, they're not writing a new health care act any time soon!

Trump announces this great plan exists! Really! It just won't be revealed until after he's re-elected!

There ought to be a law! LOL
Trump made all kinds of promises about great and affordable health care while attacking the, albeit imperfect, Affordable Care Act that the Democrats
worked together to pass.

Trump owns the looming health care crisis. Standing up and claiming the Republicans are the party of health care back fired on him, because the
Republicans, who have plenty of complaints, had no plan to fix health care.

Trump claims he has a plan, the best plan for health care, who knew how complicated health care is? Trump says he's figured it all out, now, and only
he could do it, of course, but he won't tell us about his great, fabulous plan until after he's reelected.

Trump has an idea! What if I, the President of the United States, declare that Congress will write a law, that he abrained up, forcing doctors and
hospitals to prelist their prices, listing every swab and bandage. Even if he succeeds and Congress is able to pass such a law, it still doesn't put
control in the patients' wallets.

Trump is real good at knocking stuff down, breaking things. Not so good at fixing things and working within the governing and legislative system and
with existing laws, that have already been written.

Trump, Trump, Trump... really pathetic.

The Affordable Care Act was supposed to fix all of this. The fact that ACA is a failure has nothing to do with Trump. You can't give a cogent response
because the ACA is horrible and gave the healthcare system to the same insurance companies the left demonized.

Pathetic, like all ACA apologists.

The ACA was pushed by, written by and made for industry so of course it was a disaster for everyone else.
The start of ACA was not initiated by protesters. It was not initiated by the free # army.

It was initiated by lobbyists for the industry that were running out of other peoples money since global trade also pushed for by corporate lobbyists
has been depressing peoples wages limiting their ability to pay for it.

So the industries bright idea was to have everyone to pitch in for it to prop them up, rather than take paycuts like everyone else has thanks to
globalism.

Going to be honest here. I highly doubt this will actually happen.
But if it does then he has my vote 99%.

If only we had more good guys in the industry... it might be possible. But, you're probably right. Trump will have to drain that swamp before change
can be brought about.

I'm sure there's more than a few high profile convictions up his sleeve with the Big Pharma name on em. The Pharma Bros have had their own playground
for so long, they got sloppy, because theyre human and that's what humans do when they feel confident.

After some heads roll, and the American people's relentless cheers for MORE! MORE JUSTICE!! are all that anyone can hear from sea to shining sea, MORE
JUSTICE is what will be given.

I don't think we will have to twist arms too hard after that.

Unfortunately, the number of corporate lobbyists has only increased under Trump.
A lot of the problems our country faces can be linked right back to lobbyists. www.opensecrets.org...

For the first time since 2007, the number of registered lobbyists along with federal lobbying spending each went up, reversing annual declines that
began a decade ago.

In all, $3.37 billion was spent on federal lobbying last year, up 7 percent from $3.15 billion in 2016. The increase comes after declines in spending
five of the previous six years, rising less than 1 percent the other year.

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